"The Council is focusing its resources on supporting teachers and teamsas they make their own professional decisions -- informed by reflectionand research -- about how best to foster literacy learning. "NCTE President Keith Gilyard

NCTE Book Series, Virtual Conference, & Consulting Services

"No one knows as much about your students as you do . . . Your knowledge about your students guides the instructional choices you make, and it shapes your response to any mandate, including the Common Core State Standards.” Anne Gere, Core Standards Series Editor

Supporting Students in a Time of Core Standards

The NCTE Book Series and Virtual Conference Recordings explore how student-centered teaching remains crucial to every classroom and provides examples of upholding NCTE principles of effective teaching in a time of Core Standards. The series is focused on helping teachers and schools interpret the Common Core State Standards, contextualize and connectto the CCSS, and plan units of instruction keeping students at the center and teachers as decision-makers.

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Effective Teaching in the Time of Core Standards

2010-11 Teacher of the Year and NCTE member Sarah Brown Wessling Suggests How: